An Omaha woman who pleaded no contest to setting her boyfriend on fire has been sentenced.

Tanesha Beard received 5-10 year sentences each for arson and assault in connection with the incident. The sentences are to be served concurrently.

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Prosecutors said Beard set Westbrook on fire while he was sleeping at a home near 137th Street and Atwood Avenue in March.

Surveillance video at a store shows Beard purchasing a gasoline container and a gallon of gas with her four kids in the car.

In court, Beard told a judge her intent was to eliminate Westbrook to protect herself and her kids from further physical abuse.

"She put so many people in danger and so many lives at risk with what she did,” said Don Kleine, Douglas county attorney. "Not only do you have the children, who were there, and the individual, who was burned, but then there are the people who put themselves at risk fighting the fire, or neighbors or whoever.”

Westbrook, who has now recovered from his injuries, told the judge he didn't want to see her incarcerated and wanted no restitution, despite his multiple skin grafts for severe burns and months of physical therapy.

Two of Beard's children were originally arrested on suspicion of arson before Beard admitted she was the one who did it.